To: Chainmail
They didn't know us. Precisely. The American psyche, at that time, was such that the only acceptable outcome of the Pacific war was Unconditional Surrender. No other outcome was acceptable.
Mecca still stands. Times have changed.
24 posted on
06/10/2012 4:18:26 AM PDT by
Former Proud Canadian
(Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
the only acceptable outcome of the Pacific war was Unconditional Surrender
And the major reason for that was WWI was a negotiated peace and it didn’t work so we weren’t going to do it again. This round it was unconditional surrender.
52 posted on
06/11/2012 5:24:06 AM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
( (Lord, save me from some conservatives, they don't understand history any better than liberals.))
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